苗疆边墙与清代湘西民族事务的深层对话

Frontier Wall along Border Areas Inhabited by Miao People in Qing Dynasty and Ethnic Affair of Western Hunan

本文把清代苗疆边墙放在明清数百年民族关系和民族政策对话中详加检讨,形成一个对今天有重要借鉴意义的基本结论:与明代边墙不一样,清代边墙已不再纯粹是一道军事工程,而是国家为解决有着几百年历史的民族矛盾,在长期的民族政策对话中实现的一项民族制度创新;它是一个完整的制度体系,是基于军事安全基础之上的,国家权力在多民族社区的成功运作,并成功地实现了国家对多民族社区的近代化重构目的。

This paper examines frontier wall along border areas inhabited by Miao people in Qing Dynasty against the background of relationship among nationalities and policies toward minorities in Qing Dynasty and draw an important conclusion that the wall is not a military defense project, but a new national policy to solve the contradictions among nationalities, and that it is a complete system of regulations and a successful imolementation of power in areas inhabited bv various nationalities.